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Comprehensive muscular development is the first step
toward improving your golf game and avoiding physical setbacks. The second
step is to do more specialized stretching, strengthening and sequencing
exercises that take your golfing abilities to higher performance levels.
The following introduces a well-tested program of
sport-specific exercises that should increase your driving distance, injury
resistance and playing enjoyment. For best results, use a combination of
both isolated and integrated strength programs.
Postural Stability for a Consistent Swing Plane
 | | Norman's history of low back problems made it imperative that trunk strength was the focus of his training. |
The most important rule in a golf conditioning program is
to work and develop strength from the core region of the body outward.
A strong trunk allows forces to be transferred
effectively from the legs to the upper body during activities in which
kinetic linking is required. It also enables the body to withstand those
forces without breakdown.
Once you have achieved a reasonably high level of overall
muscular strength, the next step is postural stability through sensible
midsection training.
Greg Norman has benefited from the development of core
strength for stabilization. His individualized program consists of
isolating the lower abdominal region, the oblique musculature as well as
the upper abdominal muscles.
A lower back strengthening program is also extremely
important in Greg's case, because postural stability allows the golfer to
maintain the spine angle throughout the entire swing.
Greg's history of low back problems made it imperative
that trunk strength becomes the focus of his training. Fortunately, Greg is
a disciplined athlete with a work ethic that matches his tremendous talent.
The main focus of his program was trunk stabilization,
with additional focus on the lower body. The upper body is the third
priority after the trunk and lower body.
Greg experienced the benefits of core strength
development every time he teed it up and you can too.
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